(urth) Gene Wolfe is for Exultants

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/20/2010 8:27 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Ah, but is not their height then another result of technology? Does it
> not help them keep the natives down?

still noodling that - obviously their greater size brings immediate 
physical advanatge, and makes it much harder for commoners to 
impersonate exultants.  Perhaps there was a sex imbalance, and the 
genetically large exultant men didn't have enough women of their stature 
to survive bearing their larger children, thus the royal jelly treatment 
and the cloning.

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